What is up everybody? Everybody, welcome
to the Ham Radio Crash Course. Welcome
to Saturday. Today, a patron picks
episode and they want to talk about some
more advanced features of that new
Kenwood D750 mobile radio, and I'm happy
to oblige. So, we'll be taking a look at
some of my most favorite advanced
features on this brand new radio. Please
enjoy the memes, and we'll get started
real soon.
Hey everybody, how's it going? I hope
you're doing great. Welcome to the
Hammer Crash Course. Uh, I am living
through the heat wave. I don't even know
like this is the hottest it's been
around this area for quite some time. I
am I am broiling. Hopefully, we're all
good. But aoy, we have an AOY in the
chat. Um, I was jokingly sending out
group messages earlier today. Um, people
just be leaving their stuff on default.
You can blast everybody on APRS uh using
a tip that I will be showing you here
very shortly. Do want to give a shout
out to uh some of our friends here. We
got a bit of a fun launch that's going
to happen in about 30 minutes or so. We
4DX will be launching Abun. And so we
will be uh following the balloon's
traffic as it launches out there and
hopefully we'll see something fun. But
yeah, we're going to we're going to keep
an eye on what's going there. But if you
want to follow it, the link is in the
live stream chat. So make sure to check
that out. Also, uh the manuals, right
guys? Manuals are an important thing for
radios. In this case, I was using both
the 75 and the D750 manuals. Links are
in the video description for that. if
you are so inclined and looking for this
radio, check out DXE Engineering. Uh I
do have an affiliate code there. So,
appreciate you. Also, a bit of a spoiler
alert. I dropped a couple of links for
those of you with the D750 that are
worried about that clicking noise. I got
a solution. Those are the two items. I
will explain more in a video that will
likely be going up on Monday or Tuesday
or Thursday. So, there you go. Very
good. How's it going everybody? Hope
you're doing well. Hopefully, you're
having fun, staying cool. Hopefully some
of you are experiencing fall. I am not.
I'm very unhappy about all of that. Very
uncool. Yeah, I'm looking at the chat
there. Good. Good. Yes. Okay. Very good.
All right. So, what are we talking
about? Well, we're talking about the
D750, right? Mobile radio triband,
right? Triband. But a lot of the
features that we're going to be covering
today, not really for 220. I'll show you
a table of uh contents of what we will
be covering today in the advanced in the
advanced chat. APRS groups digipeting
crossband repeat wireless LAN DAR direct
mode wireless op mode and then the voice
guidance system. A bit of a shout out
for our uh differently aabled
individuals. I know that I get a number
of people that talk about accessibility
of amateur radios, how good they are for
people who are maybe difficultly sighted
or have trouble hearing uh a number of
things. And so this is it's nice to be
able to hit uh hit this and Kenwood
actually does a really good job at that.
So that's part of the reason that uh we
will be doing it. Okay, questions before
we get started. Yes, I will be taking
questions. So follow along in the chat
if you are so inclined. We will be doing
an after chat. It will be over on my
Discord. The Discord is linked in the
video description.
>> Yeah, chat
>> go.
>> Okay.
>> Oh, and by the way, Dad,
>> yeah,
>> fish.
>> Thank you. Thank you for fish. Great.
I'm gonna take a sip of my drink.
Okay.
questions. I'll take them in uh the the
chat.
I don't 93 in uh Vegas is insane. It is
over 100 degrees
and that is way too hot out here. So,
all right, cool. Okay, let's
>> dying.
>> We're all dying, Ben. It's You're very
off mic, so you're just yelling at
nothing. So, okay, let's take a look at
what we got going on here.
All right, so the first one, uh, we're
actually going to try this in two parts,
and I'm curious how this is going to go.
So, I I mentioned that I wasn't the
biggest fan of the keypad on this radio.
I found that text entry particularly for
APRS is yeah it's a bit it's a bit
frustrating to be honest with you. But
the way you do it it's it's very
straightforward is you just go to
messages if you want to and you can hit
new um or you can reply to somebody. In
fact I have a number of messages to
reply to for like the relay program
whatever. But if you go to menu and then
APRS and you go to 5 95.
Oh, not bulletin board. That's a
different advanced feature, message
groups. So, these are standard message
groups right out of the gate that your
radios likely have configured if you're
running APRS, which is kind of funny
because um yeah, you could just type all
and you'll just blast everybody. So,
speaking of which, let's let's do that
right now. So, I'm going to go back out
here. Um we're going to go back into
our duel.
And where did we go?
How the heck did I do that?
I think I hit the uh the program config
or pre uh program. You can load up a lot
of different stuff. Wait, what? How did
I get
I have never turned off duel.
Uh, what?
Where is my That's wild. Okay. Anyway,
we got it in the B channel. All we
really need to do is show the the one at
a time. But anyway, so if we go to key
uh message and hit new. So, let's just
fire it off to all. Let's see what
happens.
Hello.
Well, now let's change that. We're going
to add some more.
Hello.
Don't
melt.
This is why I don't like doing T9
anymore.
Now we can send it. Okay, got it. Here
we go.
this radio.
So, we'll wait a second to see if we get
somebody back here.
Oh, wait.
We may have to resend that.
We had it in uh
KISS mode, which it probably didn't go
through as an APRS message. So, no
problem. We'll redo.
We'll just send aoy. We'll really just
blow up the uh inbox of everybody and
then I will hear something.
There we go.
I've never actually had that go off like
that before. That's interesting. Anyway,
we're going to need it for a little bit
for the crossband repeat, but okay. So,
that's the first thing. You may want to
change your groups or you're going to
have people like me that can just send a
hoy uh to everyone. Now, curiously, why
it was on uh KISS was we can flip this
around, too. So, we have our application
running.
We should be What? Get out of here. I
don't want Gemini.
We should be good here. We should be
pulling in some
packets. So, we'll go to messages, send
to all,
and we can say anything.
Thanks.
If you're
watching
the live stream,
so there you go.
So that's one thing you can do right out
of the gate. Uh you don't need
Uh, wait. Is it doing vertical screen?
Is the stream vertical right now, guys?
Okay.
Okay. Thank you. God, you guys freak
freak me out.
I got to ignore the chat apparently. I
try to listen to you guys, but you make
me freak out. Okay, so that's the that's
the first one. Next one. Digipeter. So,
something that I like to leave on uh let
me put it back into APRS 12 mode. Needs
to be in APRS 12. Go to 580. So, we
talked about this in the past, but all
the menu systems are broken up in these
numbered systems. So it starts out at 1,
two, three, four, five, and then go to
eight.
Did you repeat? And then under my call
on, you you have that turned on. You
want to leave the UI check alone.
You uh dig alias. You don't need that.
But let me go back there.
Okay. So now with this connected, if I
try and beacon, which I should be able
to do with this guy, let's go back to
APRS
and we will enable APRS Kiss.
So that's me
and it just transmitted.
So that was my beaconing here getting
re-transmitted by the mobile.
Oh, well that's good. I appreciate that,
Bill. Thanks. Good.
Excellent. Two streams are working.
Cool.
So, you can watch whatever you want. If
you want horizontal, you want vertical,
whatever you need. Whatever you want.
Okay. Cool. So, we just got slammed with
a bunch of uh messages, but there you
go. Okay. So, that's the uh digipeding.
Digipeding is handy.
Digiping is handy when you are going to
hike around somewhere with a handheld.
It looks for your call sign and that's
what it uh go sends out for those you
know that may be interested in following
along and you need the more power to get
your transmit out.
That is how I have it configured is that
it's retransmitting my call sign is uh
again if you go back here menu APRS
digipete
and then on the zero spot digipete my
call is on. So that's the digipeter
function being on. Uh so right now I'll
turn it back off. We don't need that for
right now. But okay so next this one
this this is pretty fun. So this is the
crossband repeater function on this
radio. So, how you do this, let me get
off of APRS because this is going to
absolutely There we go. So, we're going
to use
145
and
let's see 145, wrong one.
So, I'm going to set the radio to
145.030
and then 446.150.
And I'll take it out of any uh TNC mode.
So that's your VHS and this is your uh
your V your UHF. So setting this up is
is pretty straightforward. Back in menu,
go to one item one
for
repeater
and then
three
repeater mode. Make sure crossband is
set if you want to do crossband. If you
want to just do lock transmit on A and
B, that's fine. Um, but crossband is
going to allow for biirectional
communication.
Okay.
Uh, wait, I went too far. Never escape.
Always back. Never escape. Always back.
The repeater ID I have for my call sign.
Uh, I have it set to Morse radio for the
ID.
Auto offset's fine. I I let everything
else pretty much be standard at that
point, but Okay, cool. So now we got to
put this into digipeding mode. And it
actually does require a power cycle. So
you hold down the power button
and then this guy right here, the lower
left button. Hold it down. I don't think
it'll do crossbanding VHF packet. We
could try that at the end of the video
though. And then hold this button to
hold the power button down. Now don't
let go until you hear the beep. You hold
both until you hear the beep.
Beep.
Okay. So, you'll see it's locked out.
Lock. I can't do anything, right? But
now,
so this radio is going to be on
and it's birectional.
Kilo India 6 November Alpha Zulu. Kilo
India 6 November Alpha Zulu. Test test
test on 2 m 70 cm cross.
>> So the receive is green and it's
transmitting on the lower channel.
Uh question in the chat. Are you able to
remotely control the radio when it's in
crossband
repeater mode? In this particular mode,
James, no. But hold on because we are
going to show you wireless op mode using
the D75. And that is the capability of
modifying and changing the radio
settings. That is how you do that. So
this is in full duplex mode or sorry uh
crossband repeat mode. It already is
full duplex on its own, but
birectional.
Does that make sense what I'm doing? So,
I'm going to key up here and I'm going
to key up here.
See? You see?
Full duplex or crossband. Sorry.
Okay. Now, to turn this off, pretty
simple. Hold down the power,
turn it off. Come back down here. Hold
down the button again. Hold the power.
Wait for the beep.
And then we should be back. So if we go
MR, that's the adventure frequency. Back
to APRS. So there you go. That is uh how
you set that. Cool. All right. So that
was crossband repeat. Okay. Now wireless
LAN DAR is kind of an interesting one.
This is like if you want to forgo having
any hotspot whatsoever and you just want
to do Darry things um on your radio
after getting the wireless LAN set up. I
will skip a bit on this and assume that
you do have the wireless LAN
connectivity. Assumption is that you
will be on the Wi-Fi, right? So, make
sure you do that. Then you're going to
go to six
five
for DV gateway
and then DV gateway mode.
You're going to turn it into direct
mode.
For call sign, you want to have your
call sign and then a sub ID. So in my
case is A and then the radio that I'm
connected on is the D750. Right now I
don't believe you need the D750 but you
do need that A or a B. You cannot use a
G or a couple other letters which I can
show you a little bit on the
instructions because there is some
instructions to this. So the manual will
be helpful here. So do keep that in
mind. So let me go back. All right.
6061. We did that. Now we're going to go
up to
64.
Oh, not 64. 664. Direct mode. I have
zero set to my call sign.
Um, in 664,
we are auto updating on reflector hosts.
And 662, I'm using the type global.
You're basically going to be in global
unless you're in Japan. Japan has a
type. And then everything else is
global.
And we'll go back. DV gateway. We
already did 650, so we're in direct mode
now. So now, while I've got control for
while I've got control for the VFO lower
here, and I can still do APRS.
I'll show you that on the B channel.
Still works completely.
Um, let's go back out of that. But now I
have this upper direct reflector. So,
this is bypassing the radio and I can
connect to a number of basically
repeaters that have internet connection
now. So, if I go to key and I change
this to two. So, this is the one for the
DAR capabilities. I'm going to click
two. Hold it down
and I'm gonna say gateway CQ. I could go
North America, US West, California, and
then I can go down the list here. Uh
Cyprus is right down the street from me.
But I'm not tied to RF distances now.
I'm only tied to uh the actual internet
connection of those repeaters in the
area. But I don't need to do that right
now. I already have one configured. Um,
I'm going to back out until we get to
reflector. So, I'm going to link to
reflector. We're going to use 14
Charlie. And I'm going to try and key
it. And it's it's probably not going to
work. So, just hang tight.
So, it pted there. Transmit.
Did I say use reflector or link
reflector?
Link reflector. Yeah.
Okay. Let's try it again.
Okay, I probably do need to give it a
gateway. I had mine hard cast to the
gateway that I created my DAR account
on, but we'll just do another one real
fast. So, we'll go to uh Lagouna Beach,
K6 SOA. Uh let's do a
quick quick go.
And then we will lock in the reflector.
There we go. So, not linked.
It'll go away in a second.
Okay. So, let's try that again.
Use reflector now. And now we are
linked. So
yeah, I'm probably going to have to
crack a beer when I get done with this
show for sure. So let's do a check and
see if anybody can copy me. This is Kilo
India 6 November Alpha Zulu. I'm testing
out the my reflector connection to 14
Charlie. Is there anyone monitoring?
Monitoring?
Are you monitoring?
What's going on?
This is KI6NZ. Anyone copying on 14
Charlie?
I don't think there's anybody monitoring
14 Charlie.
So I'm basically for
>> one second to respond real quick. 14
Charlie
>> does somebody have a question about 14
Charlie?
>> Negative question on 14 Charlie. This is
KI6NAZ. I am using a direct connect uh
via the new Kenwood D750 and I just
wanted to see if I was making it. Thank
you for coming back to me.
Okay.
Oh,
that audio is a bit rough.
Okay. Well, we heard it. Mission
accomplished as far as I'm concerned.
Okay. Now, let's take this out of
reflector mode. I'm going to
unlink from all this by going back. Oo,
that's too loud.
Menu, Dar, DV gateway off, and then
escape. And so, we're right back to
analog. Just like that.
Just like that. So, working. That was uh
wireless LAN connectivity. You just have
to go through a gateway. Um, and the
gateway are basically the reflectors,
right? or sorry the the repeaters. Okay,
wireless op mode. Uh this is a little
weirdish one and I want to take a minute
and
talk kind of what is going on here. So
once upon a time uh Kenwoods, the
TS2000, right? Is it TS2000? I believe
so. The Kenwood D74 had something called
uh Sky Command. It was a great little
system, Sky Command. And it would
basically, I believe, working over DTMF
tones allowed the individual to control
the different features and um settings
on the radio. I think it worked with the
D710 as well. Uh it was a pretty cool
feature. So, they didn't really it's
gone now, but it it still exists in the
form of this wireless op mode thing,
right? So, let me show you what has to
be done for wireless op mode. So, you go
into menu
and we go to configuration. So, 90
and we go to this one's off the top of
my head. I can't remember exactly.
Not that one. I may have to look this
up. Um, a other I think it's other.
No, interface.
Nope. Okay, then it's auxiliary. Yes,
this is it. Okay. So, uh, an auxiliary,
so 94, and you scroll down to
secret access code.
Set a secret access code and do the same
on your Kenwood handheld ham radio. And
then you can enter into this remote
operation mode. So to do that, we're
going to have to shut it off again, but
this time we're going to hold down this
second button.
Remember, they don't call this sky
command anymore. This is wireless op
mode. So I'm going to hold down this
button and I'm going to hold down the
power button and we are going to get it
to turn on.
Wait for the beep.
external remote.
So 146580 is not the frequency I should
be on for this, but um oh well, we're
kind of pot committed. So anyway,
one
46 580. Okay.
So, let's turn off. All right. We've got
everything turned off here.
And I am going to key this radio
on the same frequency. And I'm going to
hit enter. And then I'm going to cycle
through some of these DTMF
settings. So, let's do frequency. Enter.
1 4 5 1 5 0
0
did not work.
Let's change that to repeater on.
test
ki68.
No. So, oh no, wait.
Well, that's the way it's supposed to
work. I just started this one today and
I I have not spent much time with it.
But to show you again the options here,
I'll I'll work through them for you. So
if you hold down
and these are the options you have
I really want to do this one though. We
got to figure this out. Okay, so we're
going to hit enter again.
1 4 0.
No.
Uh, it should just be 14 51 5 0 0.
Right.
We wanted to see this move, but it
didn't.
Okay.
Well, we tried.
This came bundled like, you know, this
came working like standard. This is the
standard base uh firmware load on this.
So,
It's hot today. Sorry. Okay, we're going
to do uh a couple more things here and
then I think we're going to play around
a little bit with some random
connections as I drop a radio.
Oh, there it is.
Okay. So, to get out of this one, same
deal. You got to hold down the power
button.
And now hold down the second button.
Hold down the power button. Wait for the
beep.
Great.
So, we'll go down here. APRS.
We will set this to actually let's just
leave APRS off for right now because
we're going to go to do some uh the
frequency guidance and voice guidance
systems. So back to menu nine
two accessibility
and then two.
So you've got manual auto one auto 2. So
let's go auto one
and see what it does.
Now I see voice is listed there and I'm
clicking and it's not giving me
anything. So we have voice guidance
volume, voice guidance speed, call out
readout standard.
Beep, voice guidance. Okay. All right.
>> Memory.
>> Oh, great. Okay, here we go.
VFO FM 446.35
>> I'm sorry I wasn't prepared for that
voice. Oh my
>> A memory zero.
>> What happens if we put it into APRS
mode? So we'll go back. V VFO FM 446.5
memory APRS
APRS
APRS on
Let's see what it does.
Oh, no reading the beacons.
Let's try auto 2
zero
>> menu 9 2 9 22 2 voice guidance auto one
auto 2 9 22 2 voice guidance
9
speed
924 voice guidance speed
9
kiss on mode off APRS on a APRS
A1
Saturday, mostly cloudy in the morning,
then partly cloudy.
>> APM 0 A
call.
>> That's not bad.
That's not bad at all. That's pretty
good.
Uh yeah, we did an intro to this radio,
but um on the patron picks this week or
this month, all the patrons voted for
another look at the Kenwood for the some
of the advanced features. We did not
cover a lot of that stuff that I covered
today, like digiping or crossband repeat
or APRS groups or any of that stuff. So
this is kind of a a first for for some
of that. never really ran um digiping or
uh crossband repeat very often.
Uh I think people they they dropped Sky
Command because there just wasn't that
many people that were that interested in
it.
I I honestly think that's really what it
was. So, let's um let's see.
There's something I wanted to do.
Uh, so a lot of this doesn't work on
220, Jason. None of it works on 220. Um,
in fact, it doesn't crossband on 220.
It's not full duplex on 220. I think you
might be able to do APRS. Um, what's the
APRS
220 frequency? Let's see if we can get
picked up there.
I'm looking it up now, but I'm not
finding it.
Is there not a APRS frequency for 1.25
meters?
Let's try it out.
I guess it doesn't matter. I can just
type in whatever I want.
Uh 223 is fine. Let's just We're going
to do a demo. So, we're going to go down
here.
VFO
>> VFO FM.
>> Enter. Enter 3
22 23 MHz
>> megahertz. I heard me
>> TX beacon.
>> Yeah, it just beaconed on 223. So
yeah,
>> Kiss ARS memory
a.
>> Okay, now I have to turn this off.
Okay,
next couple of notes, important notes
for how you use this radio, whether it's
over Bluetooth or over USB. You want to
go out of here, back to menu, at the
gear, you want to go down to interface.
And now here think of it from like a
port a ports aspect like where data
flows almost like pipes that you are
pointing uh the water and you're
changing the flows via different valves
and gates right so the idea with this is
your USB function you have a comm your
USB audio in and out you can set this to
AF or external data so that would be
like uh external data in no that's not
what I wanted back in I keep you got to
hit back, not escape. Uh, but for PC
output, right, for GPS and APRS data,
you can tell it where you want the data
to go. Do you want it coming off the
main unit? Whoa, come on now. Do you
want it coming off of the main unit,
which is the body, or do you want it
coming off the panel, which is the
screen, or do you want that going via
Bluetooth? You can set that. So, just
keep in mind when you set it to main
unit, like that means you're plugging in
here, right, for GPS. If it is output
for APRS,
you're going to do that over the main
unit as well on USB or you can change it
to Bluetooth. I did it again. Uh for
KISS, for instance, right now I have
that pointed at the Android application
for the Kiss TNC. So I have that set to
Bluetooth and that's fine. You can
continue to do that. So you can use a
tablet to point the information the blue
the kiss information over Bluetooth
while you still do GPS via the B uh via
your USBC. So then you can go through
the whole thing your DV digital voice
data gateway is also can be over the
panel or Bluetooth. So you can kind of
point things in whichever way you want
them to go. But then when you bring it
back into say Kiss. So let's let's go
out of here. We'll change this out to
KISS.
and then we'll bring up the Android app.
So, let's go to APRS.
We'll go to the preferences on APRS
Droid
and under connection preferences,
we have it set to kiss TNC. It needs to
be in that format. And then we have it
pointed at this Bluetooth device which
is the TMD75
which you can see there. And so that's
why it's routing the data from the radio
to the application.
And then we should have
Oh, no. We wanted to have that working.
There we go. Now it's starting to work.
New messages. So, let's say uh relay
Oh, that's interesting. Cyber radio,
thanks for the uh the tip there. Said
just a heads up, if you are programming,
use the body. Don't use the panel. It is
much much slower in experience. Oh,
that's good to know. Thank you.
So interesting.
You got to love uh the the relay system.
So, okay. Sorry, my bad. Uh let's send
R.
Just send me the message.
Clear it all out.
Now they're all coming in.
So, we're picking up messages pretty
much live um over APRS because I have
beaconed. So, you should be able to see
them like so.
I will answer that here in a minute.
Hold on. Hold on with that question.
Okay, we'll just leave it like that for
now.
Let me get a sip of water. I didn't even
crack a beer or anything because it's
just too dang hot.
I will though, I think, for the after
chat, but I don't know how long I can
hang out, man. It is too hot. My my wife
and kids, the reason why my son bursted
in is because he left a bunch of stuff
in here. Um, they're going swimming
right now. They call You can see it. I'm
I'm glistening. I'm glistening because
it's so hot.
Okay. Um, we'll just let that go in the
background. Is that the messages that
have come in?
Yeah.
Interesting that I'm I'm curious. See if
you can send to all. Um, anybody who's
watching right now, see if you can send
to all and I want to see if it it'll
make it to me. I have a feeling it
won't. If you got that message, see if
you can reply to me.
I'm glowing, everyone. I'm glowing.
Um, actually, yes, Joseph. Um,
the D75 and the D750 are very similar.
They have a very, very similar memory or
uh menu system. So yeah, you you should
be able to follow a lot of what I did on
the previous video about the 750, but
also if you go back and watch my videos
on the 75, I I did very similar videos
on that too when it came out. So you
should be able to uh to cover that as
well for sure.
Okay,
let's see. What was the other thing I
wanted to talk about? Oh, okay. Yeah.
So, my thoughts on these two radios,
um, if you absolutely have to do 220,
then obviously the Kenwood is pretty
much the only game in town. Like, it is
kind of the premier radio for 220 right
now. Particularly, obviously, if you're
in the United States, it's going to be
the way to go. Um, Icon has promised a
firmware that will do APRS on the
touchcreen.
The touchcreen has a full querty c uh
keyboard. So, from an APRS message input
standpoint,
it's going to be easier than the nine
key of the Kenwood. If you like APRS
and we assume that the firmware is going
to work to some level of expectation,
the Icon might be the better radio for
that for that input simply because it
has the um actually the quiry keyboard,
right?
But
um I haven't really put them side by
side. So the audio quality I don't have
a comparison. Obviously, we had the
issue with the clicking on the Kenwood
mic. Good news. I will be dropping a
video next week on that, and I kind of
already mentioned at the start of this
video that we we have a solution for
that. So, it's it's going to be fine.
It's it's actually it's very easy to
resolve. In fact, it kind of kills two
birds with one stone. Uh allowing you to
put a right angle connection on the head
unit for when you mount it like right
on, you know, when you when you mount it
in your vehicle, you're going to have it
at a little bit of an angle. and having
that cable come off the side kind of
needs to be 90 degrees. 90 degrees folds
back in real nice so it can kind of hide
away. Uh that would that's that would be
the better option. And so
spoiler, I'll just give you the spoiler.
It's pretty easy. You just use the panel
cable as the mic extension cable and
then you just use regular Cat 5 cable
for the panel. That's it.
the the panel cable that comes with the
radio is
um
the same as the extension cable. It just
is male to-male. So, you will need a
little in fact you need one of those
those little barrel connectors that's
sticking out right there. That barrel
connector is literally there for this.
They're for this purpose. But no
response yet. So, I have a feeling that
all did not it only works for the
transmitting broadcast side of it.
Interesting. Very interesting indeed.
So, uh, we can go a little bit longer or
we can wrap things up and go straight
into the after chat. Today,
I've got that 5200 that's sitting right
next to this off camera right now. We
should maybe just think about doing a
comparison of some kind. We'll get in
the chat. We'll let you guys ask
questions. We'll hang out, have a little
fun, drink a couple of beers of Brew
Dogs,
and uh, take your questions live. Yeah,
sound like fun. Maybe we'll just do
that. So, as always, the Discord is
linked in the video description. It's a
fantastic community for answering ham
radio questions. We go straight to
newcomers first. The link is in the
video description. Join and then give it
a couple minutes to get you all sorted
out, but you want to go to live-stream
and then live stream.
Join that one. That's where we'll be
doing the live Q&A. We take newcomers
questions first, but I am thinking we'll
just put these two radios right next to
each other and just have a little a
little go at it. I think um it'll take
me a couple minutes to get some
materials and hardware because I think
we're going to want um we're going to
want some audio do an audio comparison
audio check.
Yeah. Give me uh give me a hot hot 10
hot 15 and we'll we'll get turned around
on that. Sound good? I'll wrap things up
here. First though, let me say a big
thank you to all my patrons. And uh and
Chris, appreciate you, buddy. Need more
beer. Beer money as always. Of course.
And yes, this was a patron picks
episode. If if you didn't love this
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every month I let the producer level
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This was the topic they voted on. I
think I have I I think we covered the
70. I I think I think we did a good job
on the 750.
I did not expect this to come up so
quickly, but maybe people are on the
fence and they didn't know they didn't
know what to do. They didn't know what
to do hot live, you know, will it do all
the things that they're looking for. So,
people have questions. They like to see
the advanced features and some of the
stuff that like goes above and beyond
what you would expect, right? Like like
crossband repeat. That's a fun feature.
It is it's it's it's almost a novelty.
Let me just say I know there are people
who use it a lot and they're very
serious about it, but a lot of the times
it's kind of a novelty. This is actually
very easy to get into full uh crossband
repeat mode. You just set your receive
and transmit. That's all there is to it.
It's very very easy. Very easy. And it
you can get it to crossband meaning
intake from both sides or only transmit
on one vice versa. Great. Great stuff.
Works great. less filling whole nine
yards. We love it. So, hey, maybe that's
why. But I got some bangers in there
that are probably going to come up here
pretty soon. Uh, expect that in the
future. Also got to start planning our
uh Halloween episode.
Should be fun. So, hope to see you all
here in the after chat. Like I said,
take a uh click the little link there in
the video description. It'll help you
join our Discord. It's a huge Discord.
Tons of discussions happening constantly
on helping people with amateur radio and
uh we take your questions live for this
after chat. So if you're out there like
I have questions not just about the 750
about anything radios to buy budgeting
antennas you name it let's do it. Oh
skeletons on the air is kind of funny.
I'm a skeleton.
Um and there we go. Cool. What do we
got? I'm reading the chat. Catching up.
Honestly, um I think both radios are f I
I I have been using both radios. I like
them both. It's like picking your
favorite child. Very difficult to do. I
I will not do something like that as you
probably expect. Anyway, guys, give me
uh like I said, hot 15, hot 20, and I
will be back with you shortly. 73. See
you.
Uh, KH2 SDR, please hold.
Indeed, I did, sir. I'm here to kick ass
and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of
gum. Hot
Nuke uh Duke Nukem reference. Is that
Duke Nukem or is that Ash?
I think it's Duke Nukem. Anyway, see you
shortly on